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64.
TRCK,
www.jinsil.go.kr/english
, Feb. 23, 2009.

65.
Kwon (2008), 166; Cho (2008), 16.

66.
In the words of Drew Faust, president of Harvard, foreword to Kwon (2006), xii.

67.
Choe Myong-hui used this as the title of her monumental documentary of the murderous political trials of her hometown, Namwon. See
Honbul
(Fire Spirit), 3 vols. (Seoul, 1985–92).

68.
Dr. Steven Kim, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, “Major Achievements and Further Agendas,” December 2008, courtesy of
Japan Focus;
also Charles J. Hanley and Jae-Soon Chang, “Children Executed in 1950 South Korean Killings,” Associated Press, Dec. 6, 2008.

C
HAPTER
8: A “F
ORGOTTEN
W
AR
” T
HAT
R
EMADE
THE
U
NITED
S
TATES AND THE
C
OLD
W
AR

1.
Odd Arne Westad,
The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times
(Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 66, 416, note 58.

2.
NA, 740.0019 file, box 3827, Marshall’s note to Acheson of Jan. 29, 1947, attached to Vincent to Acheson, Jan. 27, 1947; RG335, Secretary of the Army File, box 56, Draper to Royall, Oct. 1, 1947. Here I draw on parts of Cumings,
Dominion from Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and American Power
(New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2009).

3.
C. Wright Mills,
The Power Elite
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1956), 175–76; Marcus Cunliffe,
Soldiers and Civilians: The Martial Spirit in America, 1775–1865
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1968), ch. 1; E. J. Hobsbawm,
The Age of Empire, 1875–1914
(New York: Pantheon Books, 1987), 351; Sherry (1995), 5.

4.
Russell F. Weigley,
History of the United States Army
(New York: Macmillan, 1967), 475, 486, 568; Gerald T. White,
Billions for Defense: Government Financing by the Defense Plant Corporation During World War II
(University: University of Alabama Press, 1980), 1–2; Davis, “The Next Little Dollar: The Private Governments of San Diego,” in Mike Davis, Kelly Mayhew, and Jim Miller,
Under the Perfect Sun: The San Diego Tourists Never See
(New York: New Press, 2003), 65.

5.
New York Times
, Op-Ed, March 14, 1994.

6.
Quoted in Cumings (1990), 55.

7.
Cumings (1990), 171–75.

8.
Davis, “The Next Little Dollar,” 66–67, 78; Roger W. Lotchin,
Fortress California, 1910–1961: From Warfare to Welfare
(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992), 65, 73, 184, 23; Neal R. Peirce,
The Pacific States of
America: People, Politics, and Power in the Five Pacific Basin States
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1972), 165–69.

9.
In May 1966 de Gaulle said he wanted “full sovereignty [over] French territory” and so asked Washington to take American forces and bases home. See Chalmers Johnson,
The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic
(New York: Henry Holt, 2004), 194.

10.
Eisenhower quoted in Sherry (1995), 233–35.

C
HAPTER
9: R
EQUIEM
: H
ISTORY IN THE
T
EMPER OF
R
ECONCILIATION

1.
New York Times
, Sept. 30, 1999, A16.

2.
David R. McCann’s translation, in
The Middle Hour: Selected Poems of Kim Chi Ha
(Stanfordville, N.Y.: Human Rights Publishing Group, 1980), 51.

3.
Knox (1985), 82–83, 449.

4.
Nicolai Ourossoff, “The Mall and Dissonant Voices of Democracy,”
New York Times
(Jan. 16, 2009), C30.

5.
Sheila Miyoshi Jager and Jiyul Kim, “The Korean War After the Cold War: Commemorating the Armistice Agreement,” in Jager and Mitter (2007), 242.

6.
Chinoy (2008), 68.

7.
Bruce B. Auster and Kevin Whitelaw, “Pentagon Plan 5030, a New Blueprint for Facing Down North Korea,”
U.S. News & World Report
(July 21, 2003); see also Chinoy (2008), 234.

8.
President Roh Moo Hyun, “On History, Nationalism and a Northeast Asian Community,”
Global Asia
, April 16, 2007.

9.
Choe Sang-hun, “A Korean Village Torn Apart from Within Mends Itself,”
New York Times
(Feb. 21, 2008), A4.

10.
Nietzsche (1983), 88.

F
URTHER
R
EADING
 
T
HE
K
OREAN
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AR

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